Star Wars: Clone Wars Gambit – Stealth
Author: Karen Miller
Released: 25 Feb 2010
Clone Wars Gambit Stealth is the first installment of a two-book Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker adventure, set against the backdrop of the Clone Wars.
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are on a secret mission to one of the many worlds caught in the middle of the struggle between the Republic and the Separatists. A pastoral planet, Lanteeb wants only to be left alone to survive but it is the source of what could be one of the most devastatingly destructive weapons ever.
If this potential weapon were to fall into the hands of the Separatists, uncounted worlds would fall. But should the Republic succeed in destroying it first, one world that needs it to survive will be annihilated. A frightening dilemma that Obi-Wan and Anakin will have to untangle, if they can get in and out of the occupied planet alive.
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Star Wars: Crosscurrent
Author: Paul Kemp
Released: 4 Feb 2010
An ancient Sith ship hurtles into the future carrying a lethal cargo that could forever destroy Luke Skywalker’s hopes for peace.
The Civil War is almost over when Jedi Knight Jaden Korr experiences a Force vision so intense he must act. Enlisting two salvage jocks and their ship, Jaden sets out into space. Someone or something appears to be in distress.
But what Jaden and his crew find confounds them. A five-thousand-year-old dreadnaught bringing with it a full force of Sith and one lone Jedi has inadvertently catapulted eons from the past into the present. The ship’s weapons may not be cutting-edge, but its cargo, a special ore that makes those who use the dark side nearly invincible, is unsurpassed. The ancient Jedi on board is determined to destroy the Sith. But for Jaden, even more is at stake: for his vision has led him to uncover a potentially indestructible threat to everything the Jedi Order stands for.
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Star Wars: Imperial Commando – 501st
Author: Karen Traviss
Released: 05/11/2009
Following on from Star Wars Republic Commando Order 66 the Clone Wars are over, but the clone deserters’ personal battle against the Empire has only just begun.
With death warrants on their heads, and a hated Imperial garrison on Mandalore, Kal Skirata’s clan of clone veterans, Mando mercenaries, misfit refugees, and a renegade Jedi find all their worst nightmares have followed them home. The search for a cure for the clones’ premature aging grows more desperate, and Etain’s son must be protected at all costs.
Darman and Niner are still stranded in the Imperial legion, and fight to survive in a very different army. But as Mandalore prepares to resist Palpatine’s new order, Skirata is forced to give safe haven to those he hates most, and some he thought were dead. Clan Skirata thinks things can’t possibly get any worse – until their ragtag private army faces the reality of fighting the Empire. Their most lethal enemies are now their own brothers.
Karen Traviss was also planning on writing a sequel to Imperial Commando 501st, but the novel has been reassigned to another author due to Traviss having issues with the publisher and Star Wars canon.
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Star Wars Lego: The Visual Dictionary
Author: Jason Fry
Released: 1 Oct 2009
Ten years ago in a galaxy not far away Lego and Star Wars came together! To celebrate this decade, DK Publishing released the Lego Star Wars Visual Dictionary, a guide to the ingenious designs that translate Star Wars characters, vehicles and environments into Lego creations.
The book is not merely a catalog of Star Wars Lego products, though every set to date is included. It does follow along the lines of other Visual Dictionaries, in that it attempts to explain things from the universe it occupies. So this takes the point of view from within the Lego Star Wars universe of sorts. This is best expressed through themed spreads within the book that often explore a character or faction and its evolution across multiple Lego sets.
If you are a fan of Star Wars Lego then this is the Holy Bible.
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Star Wars: Death Troopers
Author: Joe Schreiber
Released: 13 Oct 2009
When the Imperial prison barge Purge–temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves–breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back–bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.
And death is only the beginning.
The Purge’s half-dozen survivors–two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board–will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn’t really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
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